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It was  jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. It is located in  Cerro Pachón in Chile. It’s named after astronomer Vera Rubin, who provided the first convincing evidence for the existence of dark matter. The 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope at Rubin Observatory is equipped with the LSST Camera — the largest digital camera ever built.  The telescope will take detailed images of the southern hemisphere sky for 10 years. About  Vera C. Rubin Observatory Relevance: BBC

Regional Geography  The Strait  The Strait of Hormuz is about 275 kilometers long and an average of 80 kilometers wide. At its narrowest point, between Ra's Sharitah on Oman's Musandam Peninsula and the Iranian island of Jazireh-ye Larak, the waterway is about 50 kilometers wide. Nearly everywhere the Strait is more than 45 meters deep; off the Omani coast, depths range from 75 to 225 meters. The main inbound and outbound shipping channels traverse this area.  There are several islands in the Strait. The largest are close to the Iranian shore and of little concern to vessels transiting the main shipping channels. The remaining islands lie off the northern coast of the Musandam Peninsula, and, while they are important in the demarcation of the shipping channels, they offer no impediment to vessels. They could, however, provide concealment for seaborne terrorists in the channel area.  From July through September the currents in the Strait of Hormuz generally flow weste...

On 24 and 25 June the Netherlands will be hosting the NATO Summit 2025 at the World Forum in The Hague. This is the first time a NATO summit is being held in the Netherlands. This is the first time since NATO’s founding in 1949 that the Netherlands is hosting a NATO summit. The decisions the NATO members make at these summits are important to international peace and security – especially in these times, with so many conflicts in the world, like the war in Ukraine. NATO News

  As part of the Dharti Aaba Jan bhagidari Abhiyan (DAJA) — the largest tribal outreach and empowerment campaign in the history of independent India, so far in last 9 days, the Tribal Empowerment camps at Village & PVTG Habitation level has delivered impressive outcomes for Tribal Communities. As per available data the campaign has reached as much as 53 lakh+ tribal citizens through 22,000+Tribal Empowerment camps organised organised at various parts of the nation. It facilitates more than 1.38 lakh people for Aadhaar enrolments, more than 1.68 lakh  Ayushman Bharat cards has been issued, besides more than 46,000 farmers registered for  PM-Kisan  and more than 22,000 beneficiaries have enrolled for the  PM Ujjwala Yojna alongwith opening up more than 32,000  new PM Jan Dhan accounts. The main target of the campaing is to achieve complete saturation of various welfare schemes of the union government. It is construed as one of the landmark step toward inc...